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Eugene DePasquale: “We have to make a choice as a society. Do we want to have a…”

Featuring: Eugene DePasquale, Former Candidate, Pennsylvania Attorney General

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Studio C70 - Friends Select students interview Attorney General candidate Eugene DePasquale

Published | Video Starts at 19:20

I think also the overpopulation of like youth in the juvie system is something that I've talked about a lot. So the overpopulation of what I apologize. The ju. System like the. Oh yeah. To me we've got to have. We have to make a choice as a society. Do we want to have a Department of Corrections or a Department of Punishment? And what I mean by that is we all make mistakes in Life. Some of those may be criminal, some of them may be not. But we all make mistakes. (19:20–19:27)

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Asserts the need for societal choice between correction and punishment in the justice system.

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